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Why didn't the United States make Cuba a territory and eventually a state?

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Explanation: Well, The Teller Amendment, authored by a Colorado Senator who wanted to make sure that Cuba's sugar would not compete with his state's crop of beet sugar, prohibited the president annexing Cuba.

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